According to the article, the plane was a Challenger not a Gulfstream. According to Wikipedia the Challenger 600 goes for about $25 Million. Again according to Wikipedia, the Gulfstream 5 (G5) goes for about $40 Million. BBJ start at about $47 Million.

Something like the Challenger, and even the G5 would be better than a big Boeing, because the Challenger is small enough to land in some smaller municipal airports, where with a big Boeing, you end up having to fly into a bigger airport and drive further to your campaign stop.

The biggest plane our local airport can accomodate is a G5, and that's only because one of the big fish in this town's brother in law was a congressman who pulled the necessary strings to get the exception, otherwise, it would be prop planes only.

Some 'Splainin' To Do: I'm glad she's safe. I've been in a malfunctioning plane before and I can fully appreciate how terrifying that must have been.

whither_apophis: I will not stoop to snark despite my opposition to her husband's politics. Hope all is well.

Decados: As much as I want to see Mitt's campaign collapse in a smouldering wreckage, I hope that his wife and everyone on that plane is ok.

Gosling: I want her husband to lose, but I don't want that to happen to anyone.

Corvus: I hope she is ok

Somacandra: Glad to hear that everyone is OK and that there are no injuries.

netweavr: I'm glad everything turned out alright. No family should have to go through tragedies.

SilentStrider: Glad to hear everyone's ok.

pedobearapproved: Treygreen13: Well this has been a super classy thread so far.

Seriously. It's not even trolls it's just people who seriously wish bad things to happen to people they don't agree with. This doesn't even qualify as pathetic.

Yeah, what horrible monsters.

You ignore me, eh?

Let me guess, you subscribe to FOX News, no?

If you do, desubscribe, or describe your mind outside of FOX News now; if you cannot, you must vote Obama, for you are lied to everyday for advertising dollars. Whose Citizens are United when the information is sku'ed/skewed?